With the addition of the Refine Edge tool in After Effects CC, the underlying Roto Brush effect has seen a few changes in parameter names and ranges. Chris Meyer explains.

Roto Brush & Refine Edge contains a number of parameters that help you fine-tune the results of applying the Refine Edge tool. This movie goes through each of the parameters, demonstrating how to improve your results.

The new Refine Edge tool uses the underlying Roto Brush segmentation boundary to determine what region to refine from frame to frame. Chris Meyer shows you how to make corrective strokes and touch up the alpha using the Paint tool.

This movie demonstrates the new Refine Edge Tool workflow, which is applied after the Roto Brush tool. Chris Meyer explains the x-ray view that shows the alpha channel Refine Edge will create, as well as how to erase an edge refinement.

Find out what makes Adobe After Effects Next an essential upgrade for animators, compositors and designers. Jason Levine of Adobe and Mathias Omotola of Maxon show the new Live 3D Pipeline between Cinema 4D and After Effects. Other exciting features are the new Refine Edge that makes rotoscoping easier and the more flexible Warp Stabilizer VFX.

After Effects has evolved throughout the past 20 years to make rotoscoping a less eye-bleeding task. Check out how After Effects has changed throughout the years and get a sneak peek at the evolution of rotoscoping.

Discover the new Mask Feather tool and why it's so important and useful. See how the tool can easily take a difficult rotoscoping task and simplify it by allowing AE to generate a variable feather around a mask that includes both sharp and blurry edges.

Adobe introduced the powerful Roto Brush in After Effects CS5 allowing you to increase your productivity when compositing layers together. Colin has some great tips to help you get the most out of Roto Brush including how to help After Effects make the best choices when propagating new frames.

Ben Heusner of Curious Turtle training offers this tutorial covering advanced roto techniques with mocha and After Effects such as procedural matting. Note: tutorial was done with older mocha interface, but work-flow is the same.

Adobe Press and video2brain show you how to apply motion tracking data to an adjustment layer and use rotoscoping on that adjustment layer to selectively perform color correction on a moving object.